Profile

My undergraduate degree was a Licence en Philologie Romane at the Belgian UCL (Louvain-la-Neuve). After coming to the UK as a French assistant in a Durham school (thanks to a European exchange programme), I got an MA in Linguistics from the University of Durham, and then worked as a research assistant on a language acquisition project at the University of York. I moved on to do a PhD in language acquisition (funded by the ESRC) at the University of York. After an ESRC-funded post-doc (also at York), I was appointed to the University of Leeds as a lecturer. I have been Professor of Linguistics since 2015.

I have a keen interest in modelling (using mixed-effect models and GAMMs) and in data visualisation using R. Related topics include:

quantifying bilingual experience and

evaluating critical thresholds objectively.

<h4>Research projects</h4>
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Professional memberships

Associate editor for the Journal of Child Language

Editorial board member for the Studies in Bilingualism (SiBil) series (Benjamins)

Student education

I normally teach modules in language acquisition and formal linguistics, and supervise UG and MA dissertations.

Research groups and institutes

Language acquisition

Language pedagogy

Language processing

Linguistics and Phonetics

Linguistics and Phonetics

Formal Linguistics

Multilingualism

Language at Leeds

<h4>Postgraduate research opportunities</h4>
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